Recent Patent Decisions In The English Courts.

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Recent Patent Decisions In The English Courts.

In the last few weeks the House of Lords has given its judgement as to what a product claim needs in order to be sufficient. Both the Court of Appeal and the High Court have refused to excuse patentees for failing to pay renewal fees in time, with the consequence that the patents were terminated. The High Court has also considered obviousness, and the claim language used to claim a Virgin Atlantic Upper Class seat.

Sufficiency of a Product Claim Generics v Lundbeck

[2009] UKHL 12

House of Lords

Appellate Committee

Lords Phillips, Scott, Walker, Mance and Neuberger

25th February 2009

Lundbeck was the proprietor of patents, now expired, for the antidepressant drug citalopram. It was disclosed in those earlier patents that citalo...

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